My ongoing theme is always the truth, as I see it, and the exposure of lies, deception and manipulation wherever they exist. I remain firmly convinced that the world can no longer resist its innate urge to unite and co-operate with one another and we are very close to the point where war can no longer be an option if this transformation is to occur. Website: allenroland.com Email: allen@allenroland.com

Monday, June 27, 2016

A new study supports what a small group of military researchers
has suspected for decades: that modern warfare destroys the brain which has
huge implications for Veteran health Care.If Perl’s discovery is confirmed by other scientists,
which I believe it already has, and if one of these bomb blast’s short-term
signatures is indeed a pattern of scarring in the brain, similar to asbestos
scarring of the lungs ~ then the implications for the military and for society
at large would be vast. Much of what has passed for emotional trauma may be
reinterpreted, and many veterans may step forward to demand recognition of an
injury that heretofore could not be definitively diagnosed until after death ~
such as football concussions and related brain disease: Allen L Roland, PhD

“We talk about PTSD
being a psychiatric problem ~ how people responded to the horror of warfare,”
said Dr. Daniel P. Perl, the neuropathologist who led the study. “But at least
in some cases, no ~ their brain has been damaged.”

Dr. Daniel Perl’s findings, published in the scientific journal The Lancet Neurology,
may represent the key to a medical mystery first glimpsed a century ago in the
trenches of World War I. It was first known as shell shock, then combat fatigue
and finally PTSD, and in each case, it was almost universally understood as
a psychic rather than a physical affliction.

Dr. Daniel Perl
holds a slide with brain tissue that shows signs of a bombblast injury. The other slide shows a healthy
brain. Credit Greg Kahn for The New York Times

Only in the past decade or so did an elite group of
neurologists, physicists and senior officers begin pushing back at a military
leadership that had long told recruits with these wounds to “deal with it,”
fed them pills and sent them back into battle or another tour.

Excerpt: " It is unclear how many of the 2.5 million United States service members
deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan were exposed to blasts. A 2008 report
by the RAND Corporation suggested that the number could be about 500,000. But
some estimates suggest the problem could be greater: For example, a 2014 study of 34 living
veterans from those conflicts found that a majority had experienced at least
five blasts.

Explosions from roadside bombs, grenades and other devices produce a wide
spectrum of injuries. Beyond the shrapnel and other objects that impale the
head and body, the hurricane-force wind can blow troops off their feet, causing
fatal head injuries and concussions on impact.

Less understood is how the blast
wave ~ the pulse of compressed air that shoots in all directions faster
than the speed of sound and arrives before the wind ~ affects brain tissue
after crashing through the helmet and skull. Blasts are also believed to
compress the sternum and send shock waves through the body’s blood vessels and
up into the brain."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Tp9lICKOrg / U.S.
Soldiers hit by IED in Afghanistan (NO DEATHS)5 min
video ~ Hats off to the guy with the Helmet cam, a true professional. As soon as he
was out of the vehicle, he wanted his rifle just in case...then shortly after
that once he'd gathered his senses, he was telling people to check the ridge
line.

Colonel Billings ~ a clinical psychologist with a 34 year military career
in both active and reserves has long spoken out regarding the growing evidence
of psychiatric drugs regarding instances of over-medication, suicide and
violence ~ as well as the VA's refusal to deal with the situation. See this
important 8 minute Billings video interview ~ http://www.prweb.com/releases/2014/04/prweb11735195.html

And
of course, there is my demonstrated Heart Centered approach to PTSD which I
have both facilitated over the past six years, at
the Concord Vet Center, as well as mentored the past year as a heart centered
volunteer consultant at the Vet Center ~ a soul and action centered program
which concentrates on gratefulness and forgiveness and focuses on self-healing
versus medication.

Heart centered spiritual consultant and advisorAllen L
Roland can be contacted atallen@allenroland.comAllen is also a
lecturer and writerwho shares a weekly political and social commentary
on hisweb logand
websiteallenroland.com. He is
also featured columnist on Veterans Today andis a
featured guest on many radio and Television programs

Thursday, June 23, 2016

There is a reason that Donald
Trump cannot be taken seriously ~ he continually blatantly fabricates and
expects you to believe his self-serving assertions and lies. Many leading
Republicans don't take Trump seriously but instead are guilty of wishful
thinking regarding his self-proclamations and political ambitions. Perhaps we
must seriously consider that Trump is in reality the perfect foil for Hillary
Clinton ~ a Manchurian candidate or false flag candidate meant to serve as a
constant political distraction with the purpose of coalescing public anger and
disenfranchisement while reinforcing the growing public perception of Hillary
Clinton as the lesser of two evils: Allen L Roland, PhD

As Trump's national campaign
continues to falter and lose momentum ~ we must also face the possibility that
it was always designed to fail and that the Trumps and
Clintons are by design, with the massive help of the corporate media, engaging
the public in a massive sting operation with only one shared purpose in mind~ the Election of Hillary Clinton as President of the United States.

Since Trump has just publicly (NY Times)
called Hillary "a World Class Liar" we need to
immediately set this record straight.

“No one is more conservative than me.”
“No one is stronger on the Second Amendment than me.”
“No one respects women more than me. No one reads the Bible more than me.”
“There’s nobody more pro-Israel than I am.”
“There’s nobody that’s done so much for equality as I have.”
“There’s nobody who feels more strongly about women’s health issues.”
“Nobody knows more about taxes than me, maybe in the history of the world.”

“I have studied the Iran deal in
great detail, greater by far than anyone else.”
“Nobody’s ever been more successful than me.”
“Nobody knows banking better than I do.”
“Nobody knows more about debt than I do.”
“Nobody’s bigger or better at the military I am.”
“I am the least racist person you’ll ever meet.”
“Nobody knows the system better than me.”
“Nobody knows politicians better than me.”“Nobody
builds better walls than me.”
“Nobody knows more about trade than me.”
“There is nobody more against Obamacare than me.”

I
rest my case, this is all political kabuki theater and unfortunatelywe are all becoming willing participants in this
charadebut we must add one more Trump
rejoinder to the collection "nobody lies bigger and better than me"

Heart centered spiritual consultant and advisorAllen L
Roland can be contacted atallen@allenroland.comAllen is also a
lecturer and writerwho shares a weekly political and social commentary
on hisweb logand
websiteallenroland.com. He is
also featured columnist on Veterans Today andis a
featured guest on many radio and Television programs

Tuesday, June 21, 2016

It was high drama and a war of wills but a determined LeBron
James was not to be denied. It was his heart stopping chase down block of Andre Iguodala's
sure thing lay up in the last two minutes, Curry's inconsistency and
unnecessary errant behind the back pass to Clay Thompson and Kyrie Irving's
step back in your face three pointer in the last 30 seconds that not only
brought a championship to champion starved Cleveland, Ohio ~ but also insured
series MVP LeBron James his rightful place as the undisputed NBA King: Allen L
Roland, PhD

"He shot just 9-for-24
in the biggest game of his life, but his all-around genius carried the
Cavaliers on both ends. There has never been a force quite like him in
basketball: double figures again in rebounds and assists; the ability to switch
across all five positions on defense; and the nastiest rim protection ever from
a wing player. His chase-down block of Andre Iguodala
that preserved an 89-89 tie with 1:51 left will go down as one of the grandest
defensive plays.

"That is the
greatest play I've ever seen," Cavs assistant coach Jim Boylan said after
the game.

The moment so
overwhelmed Boylan that even as the Cavs streaked back the other way, he turned
to the coaches sitting beside him and declared LeBron's block the best play he
had witnessed on any level."

LeBron
James soared in the air to preserve a stalemate in the waning moments of Game
7, stalling the Warriors long enough to claim a Cavaliers title. Thearon
W. Henderson/Getty Images

Of
what he might take from Golden State's collapse, a process that ended with the
Warriors unable to make a field goal in the final 4:30minutes of Game 7, Stephen Curry said, "I won't watch the
film of the game because it'll bring up too many bad memories. ... But
understanding how I can control the game better and whether or not I'll be in
that position again, I know I'll be better."

Curry
was rightfully humbled by his team's collapse in the last four minutes and his
missed shots played a role ~ but King James block of Andre Iguodala's shot in the last 2 minutes was a resounding
message that this was King James night ~ and
he was not going to be denied.

Single
minded sacrifice, intention and purpose are the qualities of true heroes, both
spiritually and athletically, and eventually can become the stuff of legends.

Heart centered spiritual consultant and advisorAllen L
Roland can be contacted atallen@allenroland.comAllen is also a
lecturer and writerwho shares a weekly political and social commentary
on hisweb logand
websiteallenroland.com. He is
also featured columnist on Veterans Today andis a
featured guest on many radio and Television programs

Sunday, June 19, 2016

A referendum is being
held on Thursday, June 23rd, to decide whether Britain should leave or remain
in the European Union. To many, Britain
leaving the EU is the equivalent of escaping fortress Europe, with all its
stifling rules, tariffs and regulations, as well as the growing possibility of
a United States of Europe and new world order. As expected, Prime Minister
David Cameron, President Obama and the corporate media are solidly for
maintaining the status quo but the bottom up forces of change are determined to
rightfully be heard on June 23rd. Here's the movie, produced by the masses, to
explain it to you and let's hope the votes are legally counted: Allen L Roland,
PhD

London Mayor, Boris Johnson claimed that some opponents
have been marginalized by the agents of Project Fear ~ the label used by Brexit
campaigners to criticize the fear based tactics used by David Cameron and his
corporate media allies backing the status quo and a Remain vote ~

"This is like the jailer has accidentally left the door of the jail
open and people can see the sunlit land beyond ~ and everybody is suddenly wrangling about the terrors of the world
outside. Actually it would be wonderful… It would be a huge weight lifted from
British business." Boris Johnson / Mayor of London

Brexit: The Movie ~ lays bare the nature of the
European Union - and shows why millions of Brits are voting to leave it.

Brexit: The Movie ~ blows apart the pro-EU propaganda, and makes
the case for an independent, confident and outward-looking Britain

Brexit:
The Movie ~ is a feature-length documentary film to inspire as many people
as possible to vote to LEAVE the EU in the June 23rd referendum.

Brexit:
The Movie ~ spells out the danger of staying part of the EU. Is it safe to
give a remote government beyond our control the power to make laws? Is it safe
to tie ourselves to countries which are close to financial ruin, drifting
towards scary political extremism, and suffering long-term, self-inflicted
economic decline?

Brexit:
The Movie ~ shows a side of the EU they don't want us to see: the sprawling
self-serving bureaucracy, the political cynicism, the lack of accountability,
the perks, the waste, the cronyism, the corruption.

Brexit:
The Movie ~ cuts through the patronizing intellectualism of the noble,
higher goals of 'Project Europe', to reveal the self-interestedness of
the political-bureaucratic class which runs and benefits from the EU.

Brexit:
The Movie ~ highlights the danger of becoming a prisoner in an insular,
backward-looking Fortress Europe. And it explores the exciting opportunities
that open up to us when we look beyond the narrow confines of the EU ~ an example being
Switzerland.

Brexit:
The Movie ~ looks to the future, arguing forcefully and persuasively that
it is safer and wiser to live in a country which is free, independent,
self-governing, confident and global.

A Crowdfunded film
for the British public as well as interested American observers and nervous EU
members.

"Regarding the
consequences of a Brexit, I have said that a deserter would not be welcomed
with open arms. That is the stance of the commission as well as the attitude of
other governments. And of course, it would have implications for voting
patterns in other countries which are going in a direction that we do not wish
for" : European Commission President Jean-Claude
Juncker

"First they make us pay in our
taxes for Greek olive groves, many of which probably don’t exist. Then they say
we can’t dip our bread in olive oil in restaurants. We didn’t join the Common
Market ~ betraying the New Zealanders and their butter ~ in order to be told
when, where and how we must eat the olive oil we have been forced to
subsidize.”Boris Johnson, on EU

Heart centered spiritual consultant and advisorAllen L
Roland can be contacted atallen@allenroland.comAllen is also a
lecturer and writerwho shares a weekly political and social commentary
on hisweb logand
websiteallenroland.com. He is
also featured columnist on Veterans Today andis a
featured guest on many radio and Television programs

Tuesday, June 14, 2016

Ever get the feeling that you have been marginalized
and steam rolled by a giant political machine ~ welcome to California where two
million plus primary votes remain uncounted, where voter suppression definitely
occurred, and where Queen Hillary is being prematurely anointed by the party
elite, President Obama and the Main Stream Media. This is a desperate
political attempt to avoid the stark reality of a severely wounded and out of
touch party which has lost its credibility and is in the process of losing its
base: Allen L Roland, PhD

"It
makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party
representing four percent of the people" Gore Vidal

The major
clue that the Clinton lie machine was prepared to dump California voters and
prematurely crown Hillary the winner of the Democratic primaries was at the Nevada State Democratic State Convention on May 14 and
William Boardman (RSN) fills in the details;

"The evidence-free claims about “thrown chairs” (none) and “death threats” (tasteless insults) have been widely rebutted,but
they have served their purpose all the same: taking attention away from the
arrogant, autocratic management of the Nevada convention by establishment
Democrats working on behalf of Hillary Clinton….Their fear of Bernie
Sanders must run deep for them to follow this authoritarian performance with a
smear campaign based on lies about the Sanders campaign. Establishment
Democrats should be afraid, since almost half the voters allowed to vote in
Democratic primaries reject establishment Democratic “values.” But
their shamelessness, pusillanimity, and obtuse arrogance march on toward a
possibly disastrous November that is wholly self-engineered." Read article ~Clinton to California /
"Drop Dead"http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/37009-clinton-to-california-qdrop-deadq

Boardman
described the entitled arrogance of the Clinton lie machine but I experienced
it in May of 2016 and both wrote about it and shared of it on Susan
Lindhauer's Covert report on May 21, 2016.

I said thatthe
California primary will be a game changer and set the stage for a bitterly
contested convention in July. In
the end, it always comes down to trust ~and
no one rightfully trusts the Clintons.

I
was right about the Clinton's and here's what actually happened in early May ~

I got my Primary mail in ballot as one of 4.2 millionNo
Party Preference ~ "NPP" voters ~ or what we know as "independents"
who favored Sanders over Clinton by a stunning 40 percentage points ~ but I could not vote
for Bernie because that choice was clearly not acceptable to the Clinton
Machine.

In some counties like Los Angeles, it's not easy for an NPP to
claim their right vote in the Democratic primary ~ and in other counties,
nearly impossible.For example ~ In
Santa Rosa County, if you don’t say the magic words, “I want a Democratic crossover ballot,” you
are automatically given a ballot without
the presidential race. And ready for this, if an NPP voter asks the
poll worker, “How do I get to vote in the Democratic party primary, they are
instructed to say that, “NPP voters can’t get Democratic ballots.”They
are ordered not
to breathe a word that the voter can get a “crossover” ballot that includes the
presidential race.

It took me a
few days to call the registrar of voters to request a mail-in cross-over ballot
and I barely made the deadline of May 23th to make that request to
vote in theJune
7th election ~ this was obvious voter obstruction or suppression.

But here's more to chew on ~ Flipping the
electronic voting machines. There are
many reports of voting machine irregularities across the state. Poll workers in
Los Angeles and Orange County report that Bernie won the electronic votes in
their precincts by well over a 2 to 1 margin, the opposite of the result of the
vote count. The contrast between this and the outcome is indicative of
vote-flipping. This result in another 7 figure number of Bernie Sanders
votes not being counted; in fact, this is much worse. Millions of Bernie
Sanders votes were actually counted as Hillary Clinton votes

Now you
probably understand the not-so subtle voter fraud and suppression the Clinton
machine used to produce the election havoc that now reins in California with
over two million uncounted votes ~ and on top of that Another
dirty trick ~ exit polls were cancelled for California.

Note that the exit polls have not matched the official
results OUTSIDE the margin of error in many states in the Democratic primary
election. It has been a red flag for fraud. WHY did the networks cancel exit polls in the remaining
upcoming primaries?

Simple. They do not want to provide a means
of evidence to document this grand theft.

The mass media rushed
to proclaim Hillary Clinton the winner of the Democratic nomination on June
7th, even before voting in the California primary had taken place. 100,000
people attended a rally for Bernie Sanders, but the mass media failed to
mention it at all. On Tuesday, June 7, 2016, the California primary took place.
It was, and is, too close to call. Gross voter suppression took place. But
the mass media rushed to proclaim Clinton the winner and now you know why.

This is not only
sickening but blatant voter suppression.
Enough is enough!

This is fear based
political overkill by a Democratic political establishment that is married to
corporate power as well as the status quo and obviously afraid of the people's
will and vote ~ note super delegate power play.

"The
ruling class, and, in particular, the Democratic Party establishment, is far
less concerned about the rise of Donald Trump than it is about the broad
support for Sanders, which created a political crisis for Clinton and
seriously jeopardized her planned coronation. The surge in support for
Sanders came as a frightening shock to the entire political establishment—including
Sanders himself ~ and the corporate-controlled media, because it
demonstrated the emergence of a mass constituency for anti-capitalist,
socialistic ideas ……There is a broad
consensus, across both parties, that the class issues raised by the Sanders
campaign in the primaries must be buried in the general election campaign. The decision has
been taken at the highest levels of the political establishment to direct
attention to issues of race and gender ~ including deliberately provoking such
issues ~ in order to distract the public from the more fundamental economic
division in society."

As Greg
Palast confirmed on June 7th ~ [Los
Angeles] How
California is being stolenfrom
Sanders right now ~Special bulletin from Greg Palast"It's not some grand conspiracy, but it's grand theft
nonetheless. Sen. Bernie Sanders’ voters will lose their ballots,
their rights, by the tens of thousands." http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/37325-stealing-california

Let us hope Bernie insists on a proper counting of those ballots in
California, by the convention in July, and by implication a change in party
rules to prevent such increasingly obvious election fraud and suppression.

Finally , I'm afraid the Democrats will
learn all the wrong lessons from their brush with Bernie as Matt Taibbi,
Rolling Stone strongly suggests;

"Politicians
are so used to viewing the electorate as a giant thing to be manipulated that
no matter what happens at the ballot, they usually can only focus on the
Washington-based characters they perceive to be pulling the strings. Through
this lens, the uprising among Democratic voters this year wasn't an organic
expression of mass disgust, but wholly the fault of Bernie Sanders, who within
the Beltway is viewed as an oddball amateur and radical who jumped the line.

Nobody
saw his campaign as an honest effort to restore power to voters, because nobody
in the capital even knows what that is. In the rules of palace intrigue,
Sanders only made sense as a kind of self-centered huckster who made a failed
play for power. And the narrative will be that with him out of the picture,
the crisis is over. No person, no problem.

This inability to grasp that the problem is bigger
than Bernie Sanders is a huge red flag. As Thacker puts it, the theme of this election year
was widespread anger toward both parties, and both the Trump craziness and the
near-miss with Sanders should have served as a warning. "The Democrats
should be worried they're next," he says.

But Democrats most
certainly should not only be worried but petrified of the danger that lies just
outside the palace walls ~ for the ghost of Robert F Kennedy and Martin
Luther King, Jr are inspiring the angry hoards who are demanding a voice in a
rapidly disintegrating and corrupt Plutocracy.

Today, in 2016,
another election is apparently being stolen from the people of the United
States. Both Clinton and Trump are highly unpopular. Polls show that Trump
might defeat Clinton in November, but that Bernie Sanders would easily beat
Trump. Could it be because Bernie truly represents another life
affirming choice of peace and individual empowerment versus more war and
individual disenfranchisement and that Bernie also represents the true will and
voice of the people~ which the establishment continues to turn a deaf
ear ~ for fear of their own survival.

This election is not
over by any means, the revolution continues and needed change must truly happen in July.

"They [Democrats]ought to be horrified to their marrow that the all-powerful
Democratic Party ended up having to dig in for a furious rally to stave off a
quirky Vermont socialist almost completely lacking big-dollar donors or
institutional support." Matt Tiabbi

Heart centered spiritual consultant and advisorAllen L
Roland can be contacted atallen@allenroland.comAllen is also a
lecturer and writerwho shares a weekly political and social commentary
on hisweb logand
websiteallenroland.com. He is
also featured columnist on Veterans Today andis a
featured guest on many radio and Television programs

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About Me

I'm a disabled active duty Navy veteran who was born in Boston, Massachusetts, survived a dysfunctional family, pursued and lived my dreams, including being a Navy carrier fighter pilot. I found myself by fully opening my heart, wrote three books, sired four children and I'm still living my ultimate dream by making a difference from a place of celebration and service. My 1998 PhD dissertation on the UNIFIED FIELD was chosen by Noetic Science and Common Boundary as one of the top three world finalists on combining psychology and spirituality. I retired from my private practice in 2014, because of my service connected asbestosis related lung disease, and live in Antioch, California but still remain involved as a featured columnist on Veterans Today and heart centered spiritual consultant and advisor ~ particularly with combat veterans with PTSD as well as others with PTHD ( Post Traumatic Heart Disorder).